Watching AI demonstrate their skills and performing surgeries on fruits: This group of patients immerse themselves in experiencing the beauty of medicine at a hospital in the city
On September 14th and 15th, nearly 150 representatives of citizens from Hongkou District and Songjiang District respectively visited the Hongkou and Songjiang campuses of Shanghai First People's Hospital to participate in the 5th "Hospital Open Day" event organized by the Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center. Everyone delved into the core areas of medical research, such as operating rooms, monitoring rooms, cardiac catheterization rooms, endoscopy centers, day surgery centers, and clinical research institutes. They not only experienced the rare "high-precision and cutting-edge" platforms such as smart diagnosis rooms, smart command centers, and cell laboratories, but also bent down to perform "surgery" on grapes and bananas, immersing themselves in the development and progress of medical care, and multi-dimensional perception of doctors' technology and temperature.
On the afternoon of September 14th, more than 70 people from Hongkou District, including some "two representatives and one committee member", representatives of party building joint construction units, group hospitals and cooperative units, and community citizen representatives, visited the new building of Hongkou Hospital under the leadership of Party Secretary Qin Jing and Dean Zheng Xingdong to deeply experience comprehensive, intelligent, and warm smart medical services, and to personally experience various measures taken by the hospital to improve the patient's medical experience.
In the "Smart Consultation Room" located on the 13th floor of the Urology Clinic, citizen representatives saw a curved consultation table without legs, floating in the center of the consultation room. On the desktop, apart from the simple three electronic screens, there is nothing else, and traditional items such as printers and medical record holders in the consultation room are nowhere to be found. The hospital introduced that the smart consultation room utilizes technologies such as 5G, AI, and the Internet of Things, which can make it more convenient for patients to seek medical treatment through measures such as "future consultation tables", "intelligent pre consultation", and "payment between consultations".
When the patient enters the "smart consultation room" by scanning the code, their previous medical records and health records have been transmitted to the computer in front of the attending doctor; During the examination process, doctors can control the examination room to enter various preset scenarios such as examination mode through voice control, and the examination bed, examination room lighting, and shading curtains will automatically change accordingly. Director of the Information Department, Fu Chunyu, introduced that in addition to the "smart consultation room", the hospital is also comprehensively laying out a "future smart hospital" that integrates "smart healthcare, smart services, and smart management".
In the ophthalmic day ward on the 8th floor of the new building in Zone B, there are 50 beds arranged neatly, consisting of 47 sofas and 3 beds. Liu Kun, Deputy Director of the Ophthalmology Clinical Medical Center, introduced that currently, the Ophthalmology Day Surgery Center can complete various surgeries such as cataracts, glaucoma, ocular surface corneas, refractive correction, plastic surgery, and strabismus. The vast majority of patients only need to be hospitalized for half a day to see light again. To ensure efficacy and patient safety, the ophthalmic day ward has strict audit standards and management systems, adopts integrated medical and nursing management, and optimizes the medical treatment process.
The Director of the Patient Experience Department, Chai Shuang, told reporters that the design concept and goal of this open day is to enhance hospital transparency, help citizens perceive new developments and achievements in hospitals from multiple dimensions, immerse themselves in new processes and models of hospitals, have a close understanding of new advances and breakthroughs in medicine, enhance interaction and mutual trust between doctors and patients at a deep level, promote cooperation and win-win between doctors and patients at a high level, and further enhance the sense of medical gain, happiness, and security of the people.
On the afternoon of September 15th, student representatives from Songjiang No.2 Middle School, who participated in the open day activity of the first hospital in Songjiang, gathered together and focused on the unique "fruit surgery" in front of them.
Surgical experts introduce surgical instruments such as scalpels, vascular forceps, ulnar forceps, and sutures while simulating the removal of small surface masses during needle insertion, needle extraction, and needle extraction. The expert skillfully made a small incision on a grape and took out the grape seeds. "The surgery is completed, you can personally suture the wound on the grape." With the guidance and help of the doctor, the students used surgical instruments to sew the incision on the grape, simulating the surgical wound closure. On the other hand, students are undergoing skin grafting surgery for bananas and dragon fruit. Peeling, sewing, and knotting, the students carefully completed the actions guided by the hospital's surgical experts.
Dr. Lin Jian, Deputy Director of the Training Center, introduced that "Fruit Surgery" is actually an "interest course" offered by a clinical medical college in the city for medical students before transitioning from the classroom to clinical practice, which is very popular among medical students. This time, "fruit surgery" will be brought into the "hospital open day" to stimulate students' interest in medical enlightenment, and also allow everyone to understand the surgical process in the most intuitive way, and have more understanding and trust in doctors.
At the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Diseases at the Clinical Transformation Research Institute, Yang Zhengfeng, Deputy Director of the Precision Research Center for Difficult Diseases, is introducing the laboratory situation to student representatives. The students observed rare equipment and instruments in their daily lives, followed closely with researchers to conduct clinical trials, and understood the entire process of biomedical research from sample collection and processing to molecular and cellular level research. When the cells that were originally only visible in textbook illustrations were revealed under a microscope, visitors couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. "My ideal is to engage in research in biopharmaceuticals in the future," said Yuan, a senior graduate from Songjiang No.2 High School who has already filled out a medical college application. "This experience activity has further strengthened my idea."
Wan Wen, Director of the Southern Party and Government Comprehensive Office of the First Hospital of the city, told reporters that the "Hospital Open Day" in Songjiang Campus showcases the hospital's deep and warm medical and cultural atmosphere through projects such as opening up core medical and research areas, immersive interactive experiences, etc., allowing both doctors and patients to better listen to each other's voices, and providing information resources and communication channels for students who are interested in pursuing medical careers.
